It's an article saying how Disney ripped of a Japanese TV series called 'Kimba the white lion'. See the similarities to 'The Lion King'?

Most of you probably have heard about this but I have only just read and was quite annoyed about it considering I was quite a big Disney fan prior to anime. And because the Lion King has won awards for being the most original animation.

Disney sure kept this quiet.:@

Please let me know if anyone knows any more or if you know exactly what happened?

Last edited by mosiesk on Wed 07.19.2006 2:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

what you don't think people that draw cartoons don't get ideas from other places? let's take a good look at anime, lots of idea sharing there (you steal from one animator, you have stolen from 100) it's like radio.. only one person can come up with an idea first.. but everyone wants to be the one person.. lol..

its true ideas always get shared in art - there is no artist that hasnt been affected by others and noone that hasnt actually used something in a way you could say they "stole" it. however, as this is natural in art (and necessary) you cant blame people for doing it.

that said, if you havent already, you will notice that western cinema (amongst other forms of art, but cinema is where you see it the most i think) has very often borrowed features or even copied asian cinema. examples of this are the american transfer of 七人の侍 (cant remember the title) and various others. this is excusable in some cases, where there is a meaningful piece of art created, while not in others where plain copy-paste is done. i havent really looked deeply into this, but i have noticed it many times though no examples come to mind now

You know you've been hanging around a forum too long when people start quoting you and agreeing